Site Engineer

Key tasks of the job include:

• managing parts of construction projects
• overseeing building work
• undertaking surveys
• setting out sites and organising facilities
• checking technical designs and drawings to ensure that they are followed correctly
• supervising contracted staff
• ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales
• liaising with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity surveyors and the overall project manager
• providing technical advice and solving problems on site
• preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork
• liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials
• ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to

Requirements to become a site engineer:

• Degree in engineering and a construction background
• Also site engineers that have some construction work experience before getting into a job as an engineer
• They also want you to have a strong skill in mathematics and science
• They need to be creative and imaginative
• They need to be able to work well in groups and have good communication skills

Working Hours

Most people work 37.5 hours a week but extra evening work is sometimes required to make sure that the project is running smoothly and is on time. They work both on site and and in an office. They go to the site to make sure that the project is running effectively and spend some time at the office to do some paperwork for the project.

Site engineer salary:

$25,000 to 35,000 per year

Employers

The main employers of site engineers are:

• building companies and contractors
• civil engineering companies (ranging from small, to large organisations)
• public sector organisations (such as transport authorities, water, gas and electrical supply companies)
• consultants – (working on government and local authority projects)